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	Transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Infrastructure includes the transport networks (roads, railways, airways, canals, pipelines, etc.) that are used, as well as the nodes or terminals (such as airports, railway stations, bus stations and seaports).
		The growth in transport would be impossible without communication, which is vital for advanced transportation systems, from railroads which want to run trains in two directions on a single track, to air traffic control which requires knowing the location of aircraft in the sky.
		Transport is a major use of energy, and transport burns most of the world's petroleum.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Transport (1145 words)

	Private transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Private transport, as opposed to public transport, is transport in one's own vehicle (e.g.
		Private transport differs from public in that it lacks timetables and fixed itineraries.
		This page was last modified 14:29, 14 September 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Private_transport (63 words)

	FROM CUBA / Police turn up heat on private transport workers / APLO - Cuba News / Noticias - CubaNet News
		HOLGUIN, February 8 (Juan Carlos Garcell, APLO / www.cubanet.org) - National Police tightened controls on private transport workers January 31, worsening the transportation situation in the municipalities of Moa and Sagua de Tánamo, in easternmost Cuba.
		In addition, private operators complain local government agencies make it difficult for them to obtain fuel, oil, tires, and spare parts, notwithstanding that they are licensed to carry passengers.
		"Private transport operators have to depend on the illegal market for whatever they need to keep their cars running, police harass them, local officials will not solve any problems, and in the meantime, people desperately try to find transportation to work or wherever they are going," said one resident of Moa.
	www.cubanet.org /CNews/y02/feb02/12e1.htm (217 words)

	Private transport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes Rural Transport Partnership Part of the Government's scheme to develop transport in rural areas without increasing the use of the private car.
		LP transport and flyttebyraa Flyttebyrå for private og bedrifter lokalisert i Oslo, men utfører oppdrag i hele landet.
		Groupe Kepa Transport Kepa transport is specialized in temperature-controlled transport services, general transport services, transport of goods and merchandise.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Private_transport.html (348 words)

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		With the development of a new phenomenon of transport the implications, applicability, and importance of it were seldom noticed, concerning for instance the bicycle, the car, the railroads and the aeroplane.
		Transport that was a part of other activities becomes a function of the complete economic system by itself and creates a large playing field for the private entrepreneurial spirit.
		These mutual approximations of both types of transport institutions express an affiliation with the former stage of private transport institutions: There are private companies with a public character and state- or communal companies with a private shape.
	arno.daastol.com /artprof/buecher.html (6008 words)

	Private transport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Private transport is the transport required or produced by the company itself.
		The private transport survey includes both the registered and non-registered private companies and those haulage companies that do not have to be licensed.
		Research has shown that about 93% of all private transport goods, measured in weight transported, is transported with the authorisation of a certificate of registration of the SIEV.
	www.swov.nl /en/kennisbank/z_data/inhoud/private_transport.htm (450 words)

	URBAN TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENT IN INDONESIA
		Transportation development is directed to support economic growth, national stability, and the efforts in achieving an even distribution of development by breaking through the isolation and backwardness of the remote regions in order to stabilize the Archipelagic Concept (Wawasan Nusantara) and to strengthen the National Endurance.
		In anticipating the demand of air transport especially to support the tourism development, international flights to 33 cities of 24 countries have been developed, as well as 240 routes of domestic flights that consists of 69 main routes, 128 feeder routes and 43 pioneer routes.
		Meanwhile, the use of railway for mass transport has not widely developed yet because there are some problems to be dealt with such as the shortage of finance, the low purchasing power of people supporting road development, and the difficulties in land acquisition which often causes social and political impacts.
	www.unchs.org /unchs/english/transpor/indones.htm (3343 words)

	TransCor Rap Sheet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The transport van was stopped at a mid-town Helena Burger King for dinner and a trainee of the company was left in charge of six maximum security inmates while her colleague — a fully-trained officer — went inside the restaurant.
		Two private inmate transport agents and their Tennessee employer have been temporarily suspended from moving Montana prisoners as officials investigate the Thursday escape of two convicted murderers from a transport van stopped here at a Burger King.
		A prisoner transportation company that has been accused of losing and mistreating inmates allowed the escape of a Wisconsin teen who later made his way to Texas, where he is charged with attempting to kill a police officer.
	www.flpba.org /private/rap_transcor.html (5633 words)

	Privatization Watch, outsourcing, compettion, sourcing, Geoffrey Segal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		City size appears to be a significant factor in the decision to privatize medical transport services, as private provision of transport services was especially attractive to those cities on the smaller side of the two hundred largest cities.
		In fact, the 40 percent use of the technology by private transport providers is fully twice the rate of AVL use by fire department providers.
		Private medical transport use was unchanged for cities in the top quarter (those cities with the highest populations), slightly lower for the second and fourth quarters, and slightly higher for the third quarter.
	www.rppi.org /trendsinems.html (1128 words)

	CorpWatch : Private Transportation Firms Take Prisoners for a Ride (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		And because the majority of small private transport services utilize vans and other passenger vehicles, they are exempt from most federal regulations regarding the operation of commercial vehicles (except for a requirement to carry liability insurance).
		Private prisoner transportation services that use vans or cars are not required to hire drivers with commercial licenses, mandate rest stops for drivers or provide regular vehicle maintenance.
		Until effective federal regulation of the prisoner transport industry is put in place, prisoners, corrections departments, and local municipalities will remain dependent on low-bid transport companies who profit at the expense of their imprisoned passengers.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=863 (852 words)

	Private Transport (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Private Transport was drawing a sizable crowd at each of their performances – Insomnia, a local coffee shop played host to the first successful performances of the band.
		Private Transport’s approach to creating music seems to be to find these most fundamental and crucial elements – a noise, an effect, a guitar line, a drumbeat, or a bass line - and completely explore the potential of it, yet never stray far from the fundamental nature of it.
		Private Transport’s work has definitely not gone unnoticed and their music has earned them praise from the Tampa music scene such as when the Weekly Planet, a favorite local publication voted them as a “critics choice”.
	helios.acomp.usf.edu /%7Efkalan/band.html (572 words)

	BBC NEWS \| In Depth \| ppp \| Transport's public private history
		Privatisation of transport, and of the utilities, would prove to be the single most revolutionary policy of the Thatcher years.
		This was a new way for the Government to procure transport and other public services, paid for and operated by private companies, ranging from roads to hospitals, prisons and defence projects.
		Transport secretary Stephen Byers has moved against the private owner of track and stations, Railtrack, refusing to pay further subsidies - but it is still unclear, with renationalisation ruled out, what Labour is planning to replace it with.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/in_depth/business/2001/ppp/1507970.stm (948 words)

	I welcome the opportunity provided by Stephen Selwood of the AA to debateBetter Public Transport leads to better ...
		If the cost of existing transport systems is used to justify transport investment in Auckland, then I believe every transport stakeholder owes it to the public to be comprehensive in their cost analysis, rather than selective.
		Public transport is more economically efficient than cars, and as more and more people use public transport, operators can supply more services at lower cost per person.
		Loyal public transport users will be tempted back to their cars by unreasonable price hikes, which amount to profiteering by monopoly service providers.
	www.joelcayford.com /betterbus.htm (1619 words)

	Zurich Ubahn - The Politics of Sustainability @Forum -
		This transport policy is based on a recognition of the fact that, for physical reasons alone, it is not possible to make a city of half a million people accessible with the car.
		Whether the visitors come by car or by public transport is unimportant for the economic development of the city; a decisive factor is that they come and are restricted as little as possible in their freedom of movement.
		The Zurich model of an economic, environment-friendly transport policy proves that the redistribution of road areas and of green time at traffic lights in favour of trams, buses and pedestrians is not only an aesthetic idealistic aim but also a well-founded materialistic objective of a modern urban transport policy.
	www.ecoplan.org /politics/general/zurich.htm (5113 words)

	transport economics - private finance initiative ("PFI")
		Public Private Partnerships (PPP's) are joint ventures between private sector firms and public sector agencies.
		Private sector firms require high profits for assuming high risk Critics argue that increased profit margins exceed the potential savings from greater efficiency.
		Some private sector firms are demanding rates of return in excess of 30% for investment in London Underground modernisation.
	www.tutor2u.net /economics/content/topics/transport/transport_pfi.htm (622 words)

	Road Transport
		In 1964 the railway was closed down for economic reasons, and that left road transport as the only mode of internal transport in the country.
		Private transport consists of private cars, dual purpose vehicles, motorcycles and autocycles.
		Though a shift to public transport is highly desirable and necessary, it is far from being sufficient.
	www.intnet.mu /iels/road_mau.htm (1415 words)

	Transport - Private transport in Vienna
		Extension of the public transport network and introduction of short-term parking zones to districts inside the Gürtel (districts 1 to 9) have counteracted this development, resulting in a shift of traffic volume.
		The Transport Master Plan envisages an increase in public transport from 34 to 40 percent.
		Private motorised transport is to be reduced to 25 percent.
	www.wien.gv.at /english/transportation/private.htm (336 words)

	The Lanka Academic :: View topic - President pledges to upgrade public, private transport servi
		Addressing the official ceremony of establishing the Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB), Kumaratunga said the government was ready to uplift the private bus sector too in the same manner it was improving the public transport services, reported the Daily News.
		Kumaratunga as the Minister in charge of Transport, symbolically handed over the keys of the new buses imported from Japan to the managers of the Nittambuwa, Kadawatha and Katubedda depots which have been selected to run pilot projects in the process of formation of the SLTB.
		The state transport services will never improve if the same set of persons are allowed to run it even under a different name.
	theacademic.org /forum/viewtopic.php?t=1237 (713 words)

	Qwest \| Wholesale
		Private Line Transport (PLT) provided for the transmission of voice and/or data are usually non-switched types of service providing a dedicated voice or data communications path between two or more locations.
		Private Line Transport (PLT) Service is available where facilities exist throughout Qwest's 14-state local service territory.
		Private Line Transport (PLT) Services are provided in compliance with provisions stated per Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Tariff, and/or the relevant state tariff.
	www.qwest.com /wholesale/pcat/ixcprivateline.html (869 words)

	Boston.com / News / Politics / Conventions / By sea or land, private transport fills a gap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Hundreds of commuters, primarily from the North Shore and in some cases aided by worried employers, are turning to private transportation companies during convention week.
		Other private bus lines say they are also gaining customers, and several have received authorization to use a dedicated lane on I-93, otherwise reserved for emergency vehicles and MBTA buses.
		A one-way commute on private buses ranges from $6 to $9 from the northernmost communities, compared to $6 for a one-way ticket on commuter rail.
	www.boston.com /news/politics/conventions/articles/2004/07/21/by_sea_or_land_private_transport_fills_a_gap (626 words)

	Private Transport Hire Company Pembrokeshire: Wedding Car People Carriers - Serena Cars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		With Serena Cars private transport hire company, you are assured a safe journey.
		Our private hire people carrier are ideal wedding cars, or can be booked as transport for Pembrokeshire parties.
		Serena Cars have available private hire people carriers, seating up to 6 people in comfort and style, with more luggage space than a normal private hire vehicle.
	www.peoplecarrier-pembrokeshire.co.uk (263 words)

	Annual Privatization Report 2003 - Trends in EMS Transport Services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Other types of transport providers included third-service agencies (11 percent), public utility models (5 percent), hospital-based services (4 percent), volunteer services (0.5 percent), and police-department-operated services (0.5 percent) (see Figure 1).
		Public providers may have the advantage of better funding in good economic times, but budget crises across the nation are increasingly resulting in diminished funding and greater attention to maximizing the value of taxpayer dollars, so even this advantage is removed.
		The 2001 version of the 200-City Survey saw decreases in the use of fire departments and third-service agencies for medical transport services, and a resulting increase in the use of private providers, from the 2000 study (see Table 2).
	www.rppi.org /apr2003/trendsinems.html (1137 words)

	ST/ESCAP/2192 -- Chapter II.14
		A brief summary of the private transport sector involvement to prevent the spread of STD/HIV among the workforce: healthy highways project
		The goal of the Healthy highways project is to slow down the spread of HIV/AIDS among the intercity truck drivers, their crews and sex partners in India.
		This brief report summarizes the activities and outcomes of the invention programmes for private sectors in the trucking industry.
	www.unescap.org /tctd/pubs/hiv01_2_14.htm (224 words)

	Friends of the heroes :: Reviews :: The Windmills (Now is then), The Guild League (Private Transport), U.N.P.O.C. (The ...
		Regardless of the mood you are in, you know that you are listening to a quality recording as soon as you hear the first few bars of this soft and beautiful third album by the Windmills.
		Because 'Private transport' is a record about love and London and the bits in between, and I'm not only saying that because it sounds pretty.
		Lyrically, ‘Private transport’ is a collection of love letters or rather love notes, a travelogue of all the places one can visit on the way from Australia to London and back (which with a round-the-world ticket is pretty much everywhere) and lists of things that describe Tali's life.
	www.friendsoftheheroes.co.uk /reviews/music/week40.html (1074 words)

	Urban Transport: Public Transport
		Lessons learned from an imaginative pioneering effort to give busway concessions to the private sector—which ultimately failed to materialize for the municipality but resulted in one major concession for the state.
		A pioneer project in São Paulo, Brazil (and in the world) demonstrates that private companies are ready to go deeper into public transport than they have gone before.
		Private implementation and operation of "trunk-line bus corridors" in São Paulo illustrates a mechanism for financing capital investments in public transport that São Paulo's state and municipal governments would otherwise have been forced to postpone because of tight budgets.
	www.worldbank.org /transport/urbtrans/pubtrans.htm (793 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Business
		If the private transporters are to be believed, the private passenger transport system in the state is on the verge of collapse.
		According to the transporters, hundreds of buses continue to remain impounded for the failure on the part of their owners to pay the special road tax, which the operators say is too exorbitant at the rate of Rs 2.99 per kilometre per bus.
		The memorandum demanded that the transporters should be asked to pay the tax at the rate of the passengers travelling in the bus.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2002/20020604/biz.htm (3393 words)

	private (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Along the most important streets of the city of Valencia exists a "carril bici" that facilitates the conduction with this middle of transportation.
		The climate in Valencia is very good, for which the use of the same one as middle of transportation, can be very interesting for the students.
		It is a quick middle of transportation given its manejabilidad and facility for aparcar.
	apiwebs.rec.upv.es /via/antigua/Infoalumno/Valencia/private.htm (281 words)

	CNN.com - Senate passes standards for private prisoner transport - October 26, 2000
		WASHINGTON (AP) -- Private prison transport companies used to ferry violent inmates from place to place would face strict federal regulation under a bill the Senate passed on Wednesday.
		The bill was in response to the Oct. 13, 1999, escape of convicted child killer and molester Kyle Bell from a prisoner transport van in New Mexico.
		While being taken to an Oregon prison to serve out his life sentence, Bell escaped from a private prisoner transport company's bus at a truck stop near Santa Rosa, N.M. Transcor America Inc. guards did not notice Bell was missing for nine hours.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/10/26/prisonertransport.ap (398 words)

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